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For civil purposes, I feel the second still makes more sense as 1/86400 of a solar day. Unless you have an atomic clock, you cannot accurately keep to the SI un
by shadowofneptune 4y ago
For civil purposes, I feel the second still makes more sense as 1/86400 of a solar day. Unless you have an atomic clock, you cannot accurately keep to the SI unit over weeks or months anyway, let alone the time between leap seconds.
- zokier 4y agoPractically everyone has access to atomic clocks these days by the virtue of having dozens of them whizzing over our heads broadcasting their time and having handy-dandy receivers in our pockets. And even running your own atomic clock these days is not that far fetched, see open timecards for example.
- eCa 4y agoAnd then you have sports, some of which are (or have been determined) on the level of 1/1000 of a second. I’m not sure how that level of precision goes hand in hand with that definition of seconds.